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 Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: "From Cyrus to Alexander, a history of the Persian empi |
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This book by Pierre Briant is nearly 1200 pages long, and it therefore goes into extreme detail on the period. It covers the Persian occupation of Babylon, and makes abundantly clear that the Medes were never part of a joint enterprise. Initially, the Persians were vassals of their Mede masters but after four long and difficult battles Cyrus finally overcame the Medes and reversed the relationship.
The book makes it abundantly clear that all the top political positions in the Persian empire were occupied by the Persian aristocracy, and that the highest position that the Medes ever attained was that of military subordinates to Persian satraps or governors.
Darius, the Mede, king of Babylon is therefore the pure invention of the writer of the book of Daniel over 300 years after the event and has no historicity whatsoever.
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